Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-28
farm Copies.
THE CORNWALL CREAMERY.

the discussion of the creamery question
in your columns last winter would like
to hear farther from me, now that have
had one seasons experience with the cen
trifugal process and can now state from
personal knowledge what in my former
articles had derived from correspondence
with others who had had experience and
| believed were competent witnesses.
The evidence | obtained by this cores
pondence was uniformly in favor of this
process, and my own experience cores
ponds fully with the evidence thus OBJ
tanned.
For uniform excellence of product, ease
of manufacture, largeness of yield and
general economy am confident the sys-
tenn is not equaled by any known process,
certainly not surpassed. A person who,
with suitable appliances, cannot make
good butter by this process has surely
mistaken his calling and better go about
some other business.
Prof. Cooke, secretary of the Vermont
board of agriculture, says that the CEN
trifugal and the vacuum processes are
the only ones known by which the milk
and cream can be completely separated
The vacuum process is not to my
knowledge in practical use. The centri-
fugal system is making rapid advances
in the favor of the public and the demand
for the Danish-Weston separators is so
great that the manufacturers are far be-
hind their orders.
Although we have little butter as yet
unsold, yet we are able to sum up the re-
suits of our seasons operations with toll
cradle accuracy. We commenced to re-
ceive milk on the 18th day of May and
took in the last ON the 18th of November.
During this time we made 29,669 lbs. of
butter when packed ready for market.
Our patronage at first was very small. Our
opponents and the opponents of the CEN
trifugal system by the persistent circula-
ton of the most absurd falsehoods sought
to, and succeeded in a measure, in creating
feeling of doubt in the minds of many
as to its practicablity and they said they
would wait and see. They soon saw they
had been grossly imposed upon, and re-
action set in. Our patronage began to
increase and continued to, rapidly, until
our daily receipts of milk exceeded three
tons. Our patrons still increased, but
owing to the excessive drouth the falling
off in yield of milk little more than
kept pace with the increase of patrons.
I'VE expressed the belief before we COM
menced in the spring that we could sell
our butter so as to net our patrons as
much money as they would receive if
they made it themselves and sold it in
Middlebury. Taking the reports of the
market as published from week to week in
the REGISTER as the standard ofjudging,
we have uniformly exceeded the highest
Quotations by from one to two cents per
pound. While few might have got
more than quotations, majority would
have got less, so that the general average
would have been less. Not only did our
patrons save from one to two cents per
pound on an average, but they also saved
Pill the labor of making, tubs, salt, color,
filling and maintaining an ice house, and
marketing. The only offset to this is the
transportation of the milk to and from
he factory. These various items named
bove would amply pay for this trans
bOrtatiOn any reasonable distance, espec-
billy when done by a common carrier.
he average price per hundred pounds
f milk delivered at our factory received
Y those who furnished it during the
ntire season varied considerably, ranging
ON GS to 80 cents per hundred, while
hose who furnished it only in the early
art of the season, when butter was low,
nd then withdrew, received less, and
nose who furnished only during the lat
pr part, when butter had advanced, re-
eived much more.
There are two causes for the variation
the price of milk, which | will proceed
explain. 1t is well known to every
le at all acquainted with dairying that
ere is great difference in the value of
lk from different breeds of cows as
ell as from different individual cows of
e same breed, for butter-making pur-
Pses this value depending mainly upon
C amount of cream contained in the
Tx. 1t has been the custom in all
eaneries, whether cooperative or
herwise. carried on on the whole-mill
m, to pay no attention to the different
lues of the milk of the various diaries,
to pay the same price for all in pro-
rtion to weight. The absurdty of this
IN is too apparent to need much COM
int. As well might a dealer in fat
tie or sheep take all at the same price
the pound as to make any difference
account of quality. We determined
obviate this difficulty, if possible, and
e each patron his just proportion ac-
ding to the value of his milk as well